Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the demand for hyperscale cloud scalability. As the flagship of the Seagate X class, the Exos X18 enterprise hard drives are the highest-capacity hard drives in the fleet.
- Best-fit applications:
- Scalable hyperscale applications/cloud data centres
- Massive scale-out data centres
- Big data applications
- High-capacity density RAID storage
- Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
- Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
- Enterprise backup and restore--D2D, virtual tape
- Centralised surveillance
